{"id":11059,"date":"2011-08-15T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2011-08-15T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:29:05","slug":"straw-vendors-whine-about-having-to-play-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/straw-vendors-whine-about-having-to-play-fair","title":{"rendered":"Straw Vendors Whine About Having To Play Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Straw vendors have been warned to  bring their National Insurance Board (NIB) and business license payments  up to date if they want to move into the new market when it opens next  month.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a warning that isn\u2019t sitting too well with some vendors, who say  they can\u2019t afford to pay the bills off before that date.\u00a0 Collectively,  the vendors owe tens of thousands of dollars in NIB payments and  business licence fees.<\/p>\n<p>The vendors reportedly received the letter notifying them of the need  to bring their accounts up to date earlier this week.\u00a0 They will meet  with government representatives sometime next week.<\/p>\n<p>NIB\u2008director Algernon Cargill said NIB\u2008is willing to work out a payment plan for vendors who are interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbelievable, or maybe not, Straw Vendors are whining because they have to pay NIB and Business License fees, like every other business, before they can move into their cushy low rent Bay Street digs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[186,169,108],"class_list":["post-11059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-bay-street","tag-straw-market","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}